Deleuze and Transcendental Empiricism

Anne Sauvagnargues is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris 10). Taylor Adkins is a translator of French philosophy including works by François Laruelle, Quentin Meillassoux, Michel Serres, Félix Guattari and Gilbert Simondon. Conor O'Dea is an independent scholar and translator

• Translator’s ForewordList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Creation of ConceptsI Transcendental EmpiricismThe History of Philosophy as a Becoming of SystemsThe Fractured I and the Dissolved SelfPreindividual Singularities and Impersonal IndividuationsTranscendental and EmpiricalII The Image of ThoughtThe Critique of Representative ReasonBuilding a New Image of ThoughtThe Transcendental Aesthetic and the Reform of the CategoriesIII Proust and Transcendental CritiqueThe Novel, a Search after TruthThe Structure of the SearchAnatomy of a Writing MethodIV The Typology of Signs and the Theory of the FacultiesA Kantian Reading of ProustThe Transcendent Use of the FacultiesTranscendental Empiricism and the InvoluntaryFrom the Kantian Sublime to Cinema’s Time-ImageV ‘A Little Time in Its Pure State’: Bergson and the VirtualEssence and the Time CrystalThe Two MultiplicitiesThe Actual and the VirtualThe Bergsonian Critique of Kant: From the Logical Possible to the Real VirtualIntuition as Transcendental MethodVI The Apprenticeship of SignsAllegory and the Search after TruthApprenticeship as Empirical EncounterThe Exteriority of ThoughtVII Spinoza and StructuralismMorality of Equivocity, Physics of UnivocityThe Ethics of Sad Passions and the Clinic of AllegorySymptomatology and the ClinicHaecceity and SymptomatologyVIII Series, Surface Effect, DifferenciatorStructure’s Immanence and Sense as SurfaceStructure’s Diagram and the Symbolic’s Six CriteriaThe DifferenciatorStructure as Multiplicity and Its Internal TemporalityThe New Distribution of the Empirical and the TranscendentalIX The Dramatisation of the IdeaThe Question Who? and the Nietzschean Reevaluation of the Kantian SchematismPhysics of Thought, Logic of Relations: Definition of EmpiricismThe Idea: Maimon contra NietzscheFrom Conditioning to GenesisX Individuation, Modulation, DisparationSimondon’s Crucial Contribution: Individuation, Disparation, ModulationMoulding and ModulationThe Problematic Disparation of the SignProblematics and DialecticsXI Singularities and the Impersonal Transcendental Field: Crystals, Lightning, MembranesThe Crystal and IndividuationLightning Flashes and the Asymmetrical Genesis of the SensibleThe Membrane: Life in the FoldsTranscendental Field, Singularities, TemporalitiesXII Difference and IntensityModulation: Simondon, Critic of KantIntensitySimulacrum and DisparsInsensible DifferenceThe Limit and the Illusion of the NegativeXIII Of the ProblematicThe Problematic IdeaProblem, Singularity, EventVirtual and Actual, Aiôn and ChronosFrom Difference to EthologyXIV Transversality and the Critique of InterpretationFragments and FragmentationPragmatic TransversalityFoucault’s DiagonalThe Transcendental and Empirical StatementXV Sign, Machine, and OrchidThe Theory-Practice of MultiplicitiesMachine and FunctionalismThe Capture of the Wasp and the OrchidConclusion: Becoming and HistoryHistory and Image of ThoughtThe Analytic and the DiagnosticThe Crises of ThoughtBibliographyIndex

Wherever a reader wishes to go in approaching Deleuze, these micro-readings by Anne Sauvagnargues are there with new paths for grasping Deleuze’s unforeseen encounter with the transcendental and empiricism. Studying the emergence of a ‘new image of thought’ with an engaged and canny translation by Taylor Adkins and Conor O’Dea, Sauvagnargues pursues the ‘kinetic bundle of problems’ raised by Deleuze work by work throughout his career.